A1 In the bedroom speaking practice for the Cambridge Assessment English A1 Movers (YLE) exam, you will hear a teacher asking you to spot the difference between two pictures.
Use this transcript as a guide.
Teacher: Hello, my name’s Eva.
Student: Hello
Teacher: How old are you?
Student: six / seven / eight / nine etc.
Teacher: Look at these pictures. They look the same, but some things are different. In picture 1, the man in the poster on the wall is playing foot bawl, but in the other picture, the man in the poster is playing tennis.
Teacher: What four other differences can you see? Use the numbers, and hints, to guide you through this part.
Difference 1
Student: He is wearing a red sweater, but he is wearing a green sweater.
Difference 2
Student: He is listening to music, but he is reading a comic.
Difference 3
Student: There is a black cat, but there is a brown cat.
Difference 4
Student: There is a camera on the desk, but there is a camera under the desk.
Here are words and phrases from this activity.
- bedroom
- black cat
- brown cat
- camera
- differences
- green sweater
- listening to music
- reading a comic
- on the desk
- red sweater
- under the desk
- A1 Animals Word Puzzle
- A1 Body and Face Word Puzzle
- A1 Clothes Word Puzzle
- A1 Colours Word Puzzle
- A1 English for Art Word Puzzle
- A1 Family and Friends Word Puzzle
- A1 Food and Drink Word Puzzle
- A1 Names Word Puzzle
- A1 Numbers Word Puzzle
- A1 Prepositions Word Search
- A1 School Word Puzzle
- A1 The Home Word Puzzle
- A1 Transport Word Puzzle
- A1 Weather Word Puzzle
There are materials specifically concerned with a particular grammar structure at this elementary level of English. The main structures at this level are the Past Simple, Present Continuous and structures for the future tense.
- A1 Adverbs
- A1 Articles
- A1 Can and Can’t
- A1 Dates, days and numbers
- A1 Greetings and Introductions
- A1 Have
- A1 Indefinite article
- A1 It Sentences
- A1 Linking Words
- A1 Much and Many
- A1 Offers, suggestions, orders and instructions
- A1 Possessive ‘s and s’
- A1 Prepositions of Place
- A1 Present Simple
- A1 Pronouns
- A1 Regular Adjectives
- A1 Singular and Plural Nouns
- A1 There and Their
- A1 Wh questions
At this elementary level, there are materials concerned with basic English communication to provide confidence to understand at this basic level of English.
Here are resources at this elementary level that will give students practice in reading and writing. The reading materials are reading comprehensions but can be easily adapted for other reading practice. At this low level, the writing materials are generally guided writings.
t this elementary level, there are materials concerned with basic English vocabulary to provide confidence to speak at this basic level of English.